Staropoli Art Quotes & Sayings

Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you" (181). — Elizabeth Nunez

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort. — Walter Hill

It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark. — Sebastian Barry

Hope you've been keeping your nose clean," DS Bradshaw said, trying to be jovial as he sipped a bottle of beer. I wondered what the police force would make of the fact that he was drinking alcohol at barely half past three in the afternoon. I would inform them at the first given opportunity, and also of his professional misconduct re Mum. — Matthew Crow

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while. — Mick Barr

Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past — W.S. Gilbert

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible. — Taj Burrow

Alpha sets the scale of nature
the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code. — Frank Close

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them. — Henry David Thoreau

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment. — Peter Eisenman

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. — Ted Koppel

truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And — Noam Chomsky

I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think. — Steve Harvey

Want to get paid for watching daytime soaps? become a therapist! — Paul MacAlindin